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	<title>Free Paul Jacob</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 18:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Edmondson helps block term limits on himself</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/05/09/edmondson-helps-block-term-limits-on-himself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 18:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Oklahoma State Attorney General Drew Edmondson&#8217;s campaign to stop a bill (SB 1987) to term-limit state officials, including himself, has succeeded. The bill is currently in a conference committee but Democrats have signaled that they will kill it. The law would have limited the AG and other statewide officials to 12 years in office, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other baloney from BISC; Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/05/06/other-baloney-from-bisc-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/05/06/other-baloney-from-bisc-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 06:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FreePaulJacob.com has already tackled the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) and its dumb attacks on Paul Jacob in several previous blog entries (for example, here and here and here). Off-point, silly sallies seem to be all the BISC boys can muster, but for the record, here&#8217;s a rundown of charges in BISC&#8217;s kit bag as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shocker! Edmondson opposes term limits!</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/22/shocker-edmondson-opposes-term-limits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/22/shocker-edmondson-opposes-term-limits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s true. Drew Edmondson, the four-time incumbent attorney general of Oklahoma, notorious for abusing the power of his office to prosecute honest supporters of Oklahomans&#8217; citizen initiative rights, has publicly stated his opposition to a bill that would limit his tenure as well as that of other state officials. Via Legal Newsline:
Oklahoma Attorney General [...]]]></description>
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		<title>View Paul&#8217;s recent interviews online</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/21/pauls-aim-interview-available-as-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/21/pauls-aim-interview-available-as-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul was interviewed this morning on &#8220;Nevada Newsmakers&#8221; in Reno, speaking about direct democracy and government accountability. You can view the interview online.
Accuracy in Media interviewed Paul last week about the Oklahoma indictment against the Oklahoma 3. You can listen to the interview, entitled &#8220;Oklahoma Slams Taxpayer Led Petition Drive,&#8221; on AIM&#8217;s web site, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New blog hits nail on the head</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/20/new-blog-hits-nail-on-the-head/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/20/new-blog-hits-nail-on-the-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So far, we&#8217;ve been impressed by a new blog called the Blockbuster Democracy blog. In a round-up last Thursday, blogger Joe Mathews looked skeptically at an article published by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which was very critical of National Voter Outreach, a petitioning company—and the one that Oklahoma 3 defendant Susan Johnson is president of.
Having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oklahoman defends initiative process</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/14/the-oklahoman-defends-initiative-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/14/the-oklahoman-defends-initiative-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The killing of a bill to create a task force to study the initiative process in Oklahoma resulted in a nice editorial last week in The Oklahoman:

The floor substitute to a bill by Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, and sponsored in the Senate by Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, would have established a task force to study a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling all Denver-area bloggers: it&#8217;s &#8220;Samsphere Denver,&#8221; April 19</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/14/calling-all-denver-area-bloggers-its-samsphere-denver-april-19/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/14/calling-all-denver-area-bloggers-its-samsphere-denver-april-19/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friends at Sam Adams Alliance are sponsoring a training day for bloggers in Colorado, coming up April 19.
Samsphere Denver is a one-day training event geared toward bloggers. Maybe you&#8217;ve never written a word, but have a lot to say. Maybe you started a blog but couldn&#8217;t find your rhythm or the success you hoped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9th circuit court to rule on residency requirements for petitioners</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/09/9th-circuit-court-to-rule-on-residency-requirements-for-petitioners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/09/9th-circuit-court-to-rule-on-residency-requirements-for-petitioners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Nader&#8217;s suit challenging certain Arizona ballot restrictions will have its day in court next week. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th circuit will hear the case&#8212;Nader v Brewer, 06-16251&#8212;at 9 am, April 15, 2008, in San Francisco.
Nader is challenging the Arizona law that makes it illegal for non-residents to circulate petitions for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t go into a gun fight with knives</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/08/dont-go-into-a-gun-fight-with-knives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/08/dont-go-into-a-gun-fight-with-knives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new post at OutsideLansing.com, Chetly Zarko discusses the reasons why Ward Connerly&#8217;s Oklahoma Civil Rights Initiative failed to make it to Oklahoma&#8217;s November ballot. He blames the same forces that are trying to put Paul Jacob and the other members of the Oklahoma 3 in prison.
Zarko writes:

Don&#8217;t go into a gun fight with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Why do we need to keep making the process more difficult?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/07/why-do-we-need-to-keep-making-the-process-more-difficult/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/07/why-do-we-need-to-keep-making-the-process-more-difficult/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Jacob&#8217;s latest column for Townhall, &#8220;Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves,&#8221; discusses how sundry anti-democrats and &#8220;blockers&#8221; struggle to derail the exercise of citizen initiative rights.
Paul has elsewhere related (at FreePaulJacob.com, for example), how the 2005 TABOR petition drive in Oklahoma was besieged by blockers. These blockers—who regard it as their duty to harass people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capital Research Center frisks BISC, finds not-so-hidden agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/04/capital-research-center-frisks-bisc-finds-not-so-hidden-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/04/capital-research-center-frisks-bisc-finds-not-so-hidden-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not that hard to detect the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center&#8217;s Janus face when it comes to the right of citizen initiative. They&#8217;ve got a glaring track record.
&#8220;Good&#8221; BISC is all in favor of the initiative process when leftish political causes are at stake. But when a conservative or libertarian cause is the subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul&#8217;s latest radio interview</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/04/pauls-latest-radio-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/04/pauls-latest-radio-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul has been doing a bit of media this week in Virginia, including a speech at the University of Virginia, sponsored by Students for Individual Liberty, and Rob Schilling&#8217;s afternoon radio program on WINA-AM in Charlottesville. Blogger Rick Sincere was there to get the interview on video. You can view the videos by clicking on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center so eager to imprison their political opponents?</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/02/why-is-the-ballot-initiative-strategy-center-so-eager-to-imprison-their-political-opponents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/02/why-is-the-ballot-initiative-strategy-center-so-eager-to-imprison-their-political-opponents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, the far left, union-funded Ballot Initiative Strategy Center responded to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson&#8217;s outrageous prosecution of Paul Jacob, Susan Johnson and Rick Carpenter (the Oklahoma Three) with an atta-boy letter urging Edmondson to find some way to also strike at the donors to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights effort. BISC would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are Senate Democrats Afraid Of?</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/02/what-are-senate-democrats-afraid-of/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/04/02/what-are-senate-democrats-afraid-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what the Oklahomans for Initiative Rights ask in a press release they issued today, about Attorney General Drew Edmonson&#8217;s part in killing a bill that would have set up a task force to study Oklahoma&#8217;s initiative process and make recommendations for improvements.
In the press release, the group criticized members of the Senate Rules committee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What kind of person declines to surrender his podium to the enemy in the middle of a speech?</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/27/what-kind-of-person-declines-to-surrender-his-podium-to-the-enemy-in-the-middle-of-a-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/27/what-kind-of-person-declines-to-surrender-his-podium-to-the-enemy-in-the-middle-of-a-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The anti-common-sense web site stopthefraud.com pretends that all initiative efforts which the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center happens to ideologically dislike—e.g., the 2005 petition drive in Oklahoma to post a Taxpayer&#8217;s Bill of Rights on the ballot—are intrinsically fraudulent. But despite their alleged opposition to &#8220;fraud,&#8221; the BISCquickers are not above lying to smear ideological opponents. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Jacob to appear on radio in central New Jersey, Nashville, Orlando</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/27/paul-jacob-on-radio-in-central-new-jersey-orlando/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/27/paul-jacob-on-radio-in-central-new-jersey-orlando/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brandon Holmes of Paul Jacob&#8217;s office has advised us of several radio appearances by Paul coming up over the next few days.
Central New Jersey. This Saturday, March 29 at 4:35 p.m. Eastern time, Paul is slated to appear on &#8220;Loud and Clear with Kieth Rasmussen&#8221; (Talk Radio 1450 WCTC) to discuss eminent domain abuse for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defending basic freedoms</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/24/defending-basic-freedoms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/24/defending-basic-freedoms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Jacob&#8217;s recent visits with bloggers in Tennessee, as part of his &#8220;Save the Initiative Tour,&#8221; found several bloggers willing to help spread the word of what&#8217;s happening to the First Amendment in Oklahoma.
Don&#8217;t miss this detailed and very favorable new post at the Blue Collar Muse blog about the persecution of the Oklahoma 3. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoma judges can&#8217;t even protect basic privacy, let alone First Amendment rights</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/24/oklahoma-judges-cant-even-protect-basic-privacy-let-alone-first-amendment-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/24/oklahoma-judges-cant-even-protect-basic-privacy-let-alone-first-amendment-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The case of the Target photographer leaves one to wonder what Oklahoma is putting in its judges&#8217; water, and we were pleased today to see that the Oklahoma Political News Service picked up on the story. This story may be even more dismaying than the fact that Oklahoma authorities want to put Paul Jacob and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For and against constitutional right of petition: recent filings in Yes on Term Limits et al. v. Savage and Edmondson</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/24/for-and-against-constitutional-right-of-petition-recent-filings-in-yes-on-term-limits-et-al-v-savage-and-edmondson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/24/for-and-against-constitutional-right-of-petition-recent-filings-in-yes-on-term-limits-et-al-v-savage-and-edmondson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do representatives of a contemporary American state government rationalize a sweeping assault on petition rights guaranteed in that state&#8217;s own constitution?
The FreePaulJacob.com site has posted several recent court filings in the appeal by Yes on Term Limits of Oklahoma&#8217;s unconstitutional ban on &#8220;out-of-state&#8221; petition circulators. Paul Jacob, Susan Johnson, and Rick Carpenter (the &#8220;Oklahoma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New article presents strong case for the OK 3 and against Edmondson&#8217;s shameful prosecution</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/20/new-article-presents-strong-case-for-the-ok-3-and-against-edmondsons-shameful-prosecution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/20/new-article-presents-strong-case-for-the-ok-3-and-against-edmondsons-shameful-prosecution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t miss Cybercast News Service&#8217;s great piece detailing the unjust prosecution of the Oklahoma 3. The in-depth article is entitled, &#8220;Tax-Control Advocates May Go to Jail in Oklahoma.&#8221;
Reporter Peter Winn presents a fair and balanced account of the overwhelming evidence that the &#8220;OK 3&#8243; did nothing wrong—and in so doing, shows that AG Drew Edmondson&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK3&#8217;s preliminary hearing to be held July 23, 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/14/ok3s-preliminary-hearing-to-be-held-july-23-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/14/ok3s-preliminary-hearing-to-be-held-july-23-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the hearing in Oklahoma City to schedule the preliminary hearing in the anti-First-Amendment prosecution launched by the Oklahoma attorney general, the Oklahoma Political News Service interviewed Paul Jacob about the case.
Paul Jacob, along with Susan Johnson, and Rick Carpenter, now called the &#8220;Oklahoma 3,&#8221; have been indicted on felony charges of violating Oklahoma&#8217;s statute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Reynolds asks for special prosecutor to look into shady AG transactions</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/05/rep-reynolds-asks-for-special-prosecutor-to-look-into-shady-ag-transactions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/05/rep-reynolds-asks-for-special-prosecutor-to-look-into-shady-ag-transactions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Rep. Mike Reynolds (R-Oklahoma City) has asked Gov. Brad Henry to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate possible illegal transactions by Attorney General Drew Edmondson&#8217;s campaign committee.
Rep. Reynolds, one of the state lawmakers who attended the rally in support of the Oklahoma 3 preceding their reindictment in January, says that Edmondson made $1,900 of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals Court calls Ohio ballot drive rules unconstitutional</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/05/appeals-court-calls-ohio-ballot-drive-rules-unconstitutional/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/03/05/appeals-court-calls-ohio-ballot-drive-rules-unconstitutional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth District ruled today that an Ohio statute restricting how people gathering petition signatures can be paid is unconstitutional.
The court upheld the district court ruling in a case brought against the law by Citizens for Tax Reform. The law prohibits petition-circulators from being paid by any means other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Term limits or citizen initiative rights: which is the more fundamental safeguard?</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/27/term-limits-or-citizen-initiative-rights-which-is-the-fundamental-safeguard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/27/term-limits-or-citizen-initiative-rights-which-is-the-fundamental-safeguard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For much of his career as a citizen activist, Paul Jacob was closely associated with the cause of term limits, a subject that still
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		<title>Two I&#038;R bills get thru OK House subcommittee</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/21/two-ir-bills-get-thru-ok-house-subcommittee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/21/two-ir-bills-get-thru-ok-house-subcommittee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two bills passed the Oklahoma House subcommittee on elections and redistricting yesterday that would affect the initiative and referendum process there. 
HB 3350, from Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Oklahoma City, would expand the petitioning time from 90 days to one year and specifically outlaws harassment of petitioners, both of which would increase citizen participation. The measure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Forbes visits Oklahoma</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/21/steve-forbes-visits-oklahoma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/21/steve-forbes-visits-oklahoma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes magazine publisher Steve Forbes, who inquired in a recent Forbes editorial about the Oklahoma 3, &#8220;Has North Korea Annexed Oklahoma?,&#8221; made a visit to Oklahoma this week. Following a meeting at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Forbes told Brandon Dutcher, OCPA&#8217;s vice president for policy, that he still has trouble believing Oklahoma&#8217;s attorney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Initiative process is safe in Washington state, for now</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/20/initiative-process-is-safe-in-washington-state-for-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/20/initiative-process-is-safe-in-washington-state-for-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fighting for the right to petition our government isn&#8217;t just the cry in Oklahoma these days. It&#8217;s under attack all across the country. Sadly, the Nebraska Assembly this week overrode the Governor&#8217;s veto of a bill that will effectively kill the initiative process in Nebraska unless a successful court challenge can be made.
But for now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The LB39 Maneuver</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/19/the-lb39-maneuver/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/19/the-lb39-maneuver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Nebraska, voters had to pass state legislative term limits three times before they were finally allowed by the courts to become the law of the land. Paul Jacob, president of Citizens in Charge, suggests that since Nebraska lawmakers can&#8217;t always derail term limits and other unwelcome citizen-passed laws after the fact, they&#8217;re now trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Outside agitator&#8221; to fellow Americans, 1963: &#8220;I am in Birmingham because injustice is here.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/19/outside-agitator-to-fellow-americans-1963-i-am-in-birmingham-because-injustice-is-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/19/outside-agitator-to-fellow-americans-1963-i-am-in-birmingham-because-injustice-is-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A perverse but not new expression of &#8220;state&#8217;s rights&#8221; is the notion that it is somehow objectionable to
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		<title>Targets for harassment</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/19/targets-for-harassment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/19/targets-for-harassment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at SoundPolitics.com, Stefan Sharansky observes that the attempt of Washington state&#8217;s legislature &#8220;to cripple the initiative process is part of
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		<title>A solution in search of a problem</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/15/why-didnt-the-ok-3-have-a-crystal-ball/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/15/why-didnt-the-ok-3-have-a-crystal-ball/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Olympian reports on Paul&#8217;s appearance in Olympia, Washington this week to &#8220;warn that voter rights of initiative are under attack in many of the 24 states that give voters that power—including Washington.&#8221;

Jacob singled out Substitute House Bill 2601 as an attack on
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		<title>Drew just doesn&#8217;t like the First Amendment</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/11/drew-just-doesnt-like-the-first-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/11/drew-just-doesnt-like-the-first-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson sued retired State Rep. Tim Pope for $10 million. Why? Because he claimed Pope had violated the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act that regulates commercial activities over phone lines.
But Pope wasn&#8217;t selling anything. Pope argues that he made only &#8220;public service robocalls,&#8221; not in favor of or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul defends the initiative process in Washington State</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/05/paul-defends-the-initiative-process-in-washington-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/05/paul-defends-the-initiative-process-in-washington-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul was the guest today on &#8220;The Commentators&#8221; radio program on KVI-AM in Seattle, Washington, speaking about the initiative process and current efforts in the state legislature to undermine that process. One of those efforts would actually require initiative petitioners to register with the government.
Paul discussed the issues with the hosts&#8212;both of whom were largely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Editor in The Oklahoman questions Edmondson&#8217;s &#8220;selective targets&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/05/letter-to-editor-in-the-oklahoman-questions-edmondsons-selective-targets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/05/letter-to-editor-in-the-oklahoman-questions-edmondsons-selective-targets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dawn Case, of Woodward, OK, had a good letter-to-the-editor in last Thursday&#8217;s Oklahoman, accusing Attorney General Edmondson of turning a blind eye to his friends while diligently pursuing charges against the Oklahoma 3.


Attorney General Drew Edmondson wasn&#8217;t satisfied with his first try at getting felony charges against the three grassroots initiative petition circulators and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cali Prop 93 supporters attack Paul Jacob</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/04/cali-prop-93-supporters-attack-paul-jacob/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/04/cali-prop-93-supporters-attack-paul-jacob/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supporters of California&#8217;s Proposition 93, to be voted on tomorrow, have used some pretty underhanded tactics to try to sway voters to their side. If it isn&#8217;t bad enough to try to convince voters that the proposition will strengthen California term limits when in fact it weakens them, proponents also argue in the official voter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They told him that if George W. Bush were re-elected&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/03/they-told-him-that-if-george-w-bush-were-re-elected/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/02/03/they-told-him-that-if-george-w-bush-were-re-elected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Reynolds of InstaPundit fame recently linked to the background article at Free Paul Jacob about the Oklahoma Three:
January 30, 2008
THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, political activists who circulated petitions critical of government policy would be tossed in jail. And they were right!
I learned about this link a few days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a state attorney general obliged to uphold constitutional rights merely because he has vowed to uphold them?</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/30/is-a-state-attorney-general-obliged-to-uphold-constitutional-rights-merely-because-he-has-vowed-to-uphold-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/30/is-a-state-attorney-general-obliged-to-uphold-constitutional-rights-merely-because-he-has-vowed-to-uphold-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day Paul Jacob and the other two members of the Oklahoma Three, Rick Carpenter and Susan Johnson, were re-indicted by a politically motivated state attorney general who is as bumbling as he is vindictive, and who has a tendency injurious to his cause of manifesting his true colors whenever he opens his mouth. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Courthouse rally defends the OK 3</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/29/courthouse-rally-defends-the-ok-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/29/courthouse-rally-defends-the-ok-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to everyone who was able to join us in Oklahoma City yesterday for the re-arraignment of the Oklahoma 3! We had about 30 supporters at the Oklahoma County Courthouse, carrying signs with slogans such as &#8220;Free the OK 3,&#8221; &#8220;What Happened to the Constitution?,&#8221; &#8220;Protect Our Right to Petition,&#8221; &#8220;Get a Clue, Drew!&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edmondson &#34;should step aside&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/25/edmondson-should-step-aside/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/25/edmondson-should-step-aside/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blogger Brandon Dutcher of the Dutch, Reformed site takes note of Aaron Ramberg&#8217;s letter to the editor in The Oklahoman arguing that the reprobatic attorney general of Oklahoma is &#8220;more concerned with trumping up charges against those he disagrees with, as he did with Paul Jacob, Susan Elizabeth Johnson and Richard Merrill Carpenter—better known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Newsline: &#34;Jacob ready to tour against Edmondson&#8217;s re-indictment&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/25/legal-newsline-jacob-ready-to-tour-against-edmondsons-re-indictment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/25/legal-newsline-jacob-ready-to-tour-against-edmondsons-re-indictment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at LegalNewsline.com, Rob Luke reports that citizen-rights activist Paul Jacob &#8220;plans to spend the next year highlighting legal threats to the citizens&#8217; initiative movement around the country.&#8221; (The main goal of the tour is to explain his case and rally support among bloggers.)
After that, he admits, he could wind up in jail for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New editorial defends OK 3</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/22/new-editorial-defends-ok-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/22/new-editorial-defends-ok-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s issue of The News Star (Monroe, LA) carries a powerful editorial defending the Oklahoma 3 and exposing the injustice in AG Edmondson&#8217;s prosecution, emphasizing the threat to the liberties of all Americans.


If one group of petitioners can be prosecuted on political whim, eventually all petitioners can face some form of prosecutor abuse. Oklahoma&#8217;s continuing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahomans to governor: &#34;Tell AG to drop the indictment!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/21/oklahomans-to-governor-tell-ag-to-drop-the-indictment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/21/oklahomans-to-governor-tell-ag-to-drop-the-indictment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muskogee Phoenix just published a letter in support of the Oklahoma Three to Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, sent to him by Oklahoma Independent Voters, a.k.a. &#8220;John Adair of Edmond and 46 other Oklahomans.&#8221; It&#8217;s brief enough that we feel we can spare you the trouble of clicking on a hyperlink (but if you do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California strikes down residency requirement on petition circulators</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/16/california-strikes-down-residency-requirement-on-petition-circulators/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/16/california-strikes-down-residency-requirement-on-petition-circulators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The California State Court of Appeals today ruled unconstitutional a state law that makes it illegal to circulate a petition for a city initiative or referendum unless that circulator lives in that jurisdiction.
The decision says that a contrary decision from 1994 which upheld the law is no longer good law, given the 1999 U.S. Supreme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoma 3 to be arraigned again on Jan. 28th on AG&#8217;s new indictment</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/15/oklahoma-3-to-be-arraigned-again-on-jan-28th-on-ags-new-indictment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/15/oklahoma-3-to-be-arraigned-again-on-jan-28th-on-ags-new-indictment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The arraignment of the Oklahoma 3, regarding the new indictment issued through Attorney General Edmondson&#8217;s office, has been scheduled for Monday, January 28.
Supporters of the Oklahoma 3 have scheduled a noon news conference outside the courthouse, just prior to the 1:30 pm arraignment.
If you live close to Oklahoma City, we hope you will try to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeal of Oklahoma residency requirement filed in federal court</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/08/appeal-of-oklahoma-residency-requirement-filed-in-federal-court/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/08/appeal-of-oklahoma-residency-requirement-filed-in-federal-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Yes on Term Limits&#8221; filed its appeal yesterday in an attempt to invalidate the Oklahoma law requiring petition circulators in Oklahoma to be state residents. This is the law that the Oklahoma 3 are charged with violating.
The appeal was filed with the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, in response to an earlier court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Underreported Stories of 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/07/most-underreported-stories-of-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/01/07/most-underreported-stories-of-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We were pleased to read this from the Chicago Daily Observer, under the headline, &#8220;Most Underreported Stories of 2007&#8243;:

With 2008 being the Chinese Year of the Rat, it seems fitting to gnaw through the Chicken-Wire Curtain built by the Chicago Media and break out stories that have been either ignored or suppressed by the major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More phony arguments from AG Edmondson</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2007/12/21/more-phony-arguments-from-ag-edmondson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2007/12/21/more-phony-arguments-from-ag-edmondson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oklahoma Gazette, a liberal free newspaper, published a point/counterpoint on the Oklahoma 3&#8217;s case this week. The point is authored by Attorney General Drew Edmondson, with a counterpoint by Law Professor Andrew Spiropoulos.
Edmondson repeats many of the already-discredited excuses he has made over the past few months for his prosecution. His continued efforts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoma 3 are re-indicted!</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2007/12/07/oklahoma-3-are-re-indicted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2007/12/07/oklahoma-3-are-re-indicted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson has re-indicted the Oklahoma 3—Paul Jacob, Rick Carpenter and Susan Johnson. His outrageous prosecution now continues, after the AG had, several weeks ago, quietly dismissed the grand jury indictment against the three.
Paul Jacob made the following statement regarding his re-indictment:
&#8220;This is absolutely the lousiest Christmas present I&#8217;ve ever received. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New YouTube video defends Oklahoma 3</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2007/12/07/new-youtube-video-defends-oklahoma-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2007/12/07/new-youtube-video-defends-oklahoma-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You won&#8217;t want to miss this brand-new video posted at YouTube.com in support of the Oklahoma 3!
Entitled, &#8220;Drew&#8217;s Crusade: The Indictment of the Oklahoma 3,&#8221; the video features some great clips from interviews with Paul Jacob and Sam Adams Alliance Chairman and CEO Eric O&#8217;Keefe about the prosecutions. Also featured are clips from statements by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ letter by Mike Reynolds: You&#8217;re not credible, Mr. Attorney General</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2007/12/06/wsj-letter-by-mike-reynolds-youre-not-credible-mr-attorney-general/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2007/12/06/wsj-letter-by-mike-reynolds-youre-not-credible-mr-attorney-general/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal today published a letter to the editor by OK State Rep. Mike Reynolds. The letter points out a few facts in re Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson&#8217;s own letter to the editor fatuously &#8220;rebutting&#8221; a Journal editorial that criticized his attempt to imprison Paul Jacob, Susan Johnson, and Rick Carpenter for [...]]]></description>
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